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- Beyond Implementation: Policy Considerations for Secure Messengers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The importance of secure Messenger tools goes beyond just reliable technology, it must be developed and have its infrastructure maintained by a trustworthy group with a history of responsible stewardship.
- Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
- Email privacy
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Email privacy is the broad topic dealing with issues of unauthorized access and inspection of electronic mail. This unauthorized access can happen while an email is in transit, as well as when it is stored on email servers or on a user computer. In countries with a constitutional guarantee of the secrecy of correspondence, whether email can be equated with letters and get legal protection from all forms of eavesdropping comes under question because of the very nature of email. This is especially important as more and more communication occurs via email compared to postal mail.
- For journalists, danger lurking in your email
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Citizen Lab provided a disturbing look into the likely use of a commercial surveillance program, FinFisher, to remotely invade and control the computers of Bahraini activists. After the software installs itself onto unsuspecting users' computer, it can record and relay emails, screenshots, and Skype audio conversations.
- Die Globale Teleueberwachung des 21. Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Article
Es entsteht zur Zeit eine globale Teleuberwachung, die sich von allen ethischen oder diplomatischen Voreingenomenheiten freimacht.
- Human Rights Watch Sues DEA Over Bulk Collection of Americans' Telephone Records
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
EFF Lawsuit Challenges Drug Enforcement Administration Surveillance of International Call Records
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the age of information, companies are hungry for your data. They want it - even if it means resorting to trickery.
- Location Tracking: A Pervasive Problem in Modern Technology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
NSA is tracking people around the Internet and the physical world. These newly-revealed techniques hijacked personal information that was being transmitted for some commercial purpose, converting it into a tool for surveillance. One technique involved web cookies, while another involved mobile apps disclosing their location to location-based services.
- Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area.
- NSA, GCHQ mapping "political alignment" of cellphone users
New report reveals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
New information made public by Edward Snowden reveals that the governments of the United States and United Kingdom are trawling data from cellphone “apps” to accumulate dossiers on the “political alignments” of millions of smartphone users worldwide.
- NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has made repeated attempts to develop attacks against people using Tor, a popular tool designed to protect online anonymity, despite the fact the software is primarily funded and promoted by the US government itself.
- OrangeWebsite
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Peruvian "Stalker Law" Will Be Reviewed By Congress, We Can Still Stop It
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Bogado and Rodriguez discuss the new decree in Peru known as "Ley Acosadora", or "the Stalker Law", allows warrantless access to Peruvians' location data and creates a new power for the government to track the movements of vulnerable mobile and Internet users.
- Profiled
From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Amid a renewed push from the U.K. government for more surveillance powers, more than two dozen documents being disclosed by The Intercept reveal for the first time several major strands of GCHQ’s (Government Communications Headquarters) existing electronic eavesdropping capabilities.
- The Public Interest Advocacy Centre
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net, partners against online surveillance and censorship
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders and Torservers.net have joined forces to create and maintain 250 additional relays for the Tor network.
- Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
- Spying by the Numbers
Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying. There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.
- Stop replacing London's phone boxes with corporate surveillance
New connected kiosks are replacing London's payphones. Every time you use them, you're allowing Google, BT and Primesight to track you
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Concerns over privacy in London, UK, as Google, BT and Primesight provide free wifi and phone charging in exchange for allowing the consortium to identify users and track their movements through the city.
- Three Leaks, Three Weeks, and What We've Learned About the US Government's Other Spying Authority: Executive Order 12333
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The National Security Agency has been siphoning off data from the links between Yahoo and Google data centers, which include the fiber optic connections between company servers at various points around the world. While the user may have an encrypted connection to the website, the internal data flows were not encrypted and allowed the NSA to obtain millions of records each month, including both metadata and content like audio, video and text.
- Vodafone Reveals Existence of Secret Wires that Allow State Surveillance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Wires allow agencies to listen to or record live conversations, in what privacy campaigners are calling a 'nightmare scenario'.
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